Published by ReadHowYouWant 28 May 2013
ISBN-10 0369361547
ISBN-13 978-036961547
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The Freemasonic States of America? Thirteen years before the Mayflower made landfall at Plymouth Rock, another voyage brought a different sort of settler to America’s shores: not the familiar Pilgrims of the schoolbooks, aiming to build their “City on a Hill” around the one true Puritan faith, but a complex company organized by a man named Bartholomew Gosnold, who died just weeks after their arrival, leaving John Smith to chart the colony’s course and claim most of the glory. Now an eye-opening book reveals the hidden history of their community at Jamestown – the first English-speaking settlement in the New World, where Gosnold’s remains are thought to have been unearthed in 2003 – and traces its legacy through to the present day.
Thirteen years before the Mayflower made landfall at Plymouth Rock, another voyage brought a different sort of settler to America’s shores: not the familiar Pilgrims of the schoolbooks, aiming to build their “City on a Hill” around the one true Puritan faith, but a complex company organized by a man named Bartholomew Gosnold, who died just weeks after their arrival, leaving John Smith to chart the colony’s course and claim most of the glory. Now an eye-opening book reveals the hidden history of their community at Jamestown – the first English-speaking settlement in the New World, where Gosnold’s remains are thought to have been unearthed in 2003 – and traces its legacy through to the present day.
The Secret Founding of America introduces two groups of founders – the Planting Fathers, who established the earliest settlements along essentially Christian lines, and the Founding Fathers, who unified the colonies with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – and argued that the new nation, conceived in liberty, was the Freemasons’ first step toward a New World Order. Drawing on original findings and an in-depth understanding of the political and philosophical realities of the time, historian Nicholas Hagger charts the connections between Gosnold and Smith, Templars and Jacobites, and secret societies and libertarian ideals; explains how the influence of the German Illuminati worked on the framers of the new republic, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine; and shows the hand of Freemasonry at work at every turning point in America’s history, from the Civil War, through the Cold War to today’s global struggles for democracy.
Carefully researched and compellingly reasoned, The Secret Founding of America brings new insight to bear on four centuries of history – and casts the contours of the American dream in a radical new light.
